Salt: Wildcard for directories in file_roots

[tiadobatima]

This is a feature request.

If we're adding formulas regularly, we need to change the config file regularly too, and this is not so convenient.

I'd love to see file_roots have the ability to use wildcards in the directory names. Something like this:

currently: we need to list each formula individually

state_verbose: False
log_level: info
file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/salt
    - /srv/formulas/collectd-formula
    - /srv/formulas/ntp-formula
    - /srv/formulas/sun-java-formula
    - /srv/formulas/zookeeper-formula

ideally: we'd be able to use wildcards as well

state_verbose: False
log_level: info
file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/salt
    - /srv/formulas/*-formula

[jfindlay]

@tiadobatima, thanks for the report.

[jfindlay]

Related to: #14613; potentially related to #18290.

[martinohansen]

news on this being implemented?

[jfindlay]

@martinohansen, not that I know of.

[tiadobatima]

Funny I was also just looking at the status of this issue yesterday. Would +1000 for this feature being available in 2016.03.
It's a major pain to reconfigure and restart salt everytime we need a new formula :)

Thanks guys!

[ryanwalder]

file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/salt
    - /srv/formulas/*

Works for me on 2016.3, you do need to restart the saltmaster any time you add a new formula though so it picks it up.

(That said I may have just bumped into an issue which led me here)

[lorengordon]

@ryanwalder got my hopes up, but still not working for me on Windows with v2016.3.3. :(

[meyerbro]

Unfortunately not working for me on a masterless minion...

[xlotlu]

Would also supersede #6739.

[alem0lars-yr]

Is there a released version where salt is known to support wildcards for file_roots?

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